Meaning of 'lodge' (Webster Dictionary)
- A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude
cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
- A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of
an estate.
- A den or cave.
- The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly
constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to
permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called
also platt.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- A family of North American Indians, or the persons who
usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned
from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred
lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
- To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a
sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
- To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
- To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged
their arms in the arsenal.
- To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
- To lay down; to prostrate.
- To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to
rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York
Street.
- To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or
beaten down by the wind.
- To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet
lodged in the bark of a tree.
Meaning of 'lodge' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a formal association of people with similar interests
Example in sentence:- he joined a golf club;
- men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today;
- they formed a small lunch society
Meaning (2):
- put, fix, force, or implant
Example in sentence:- lodge a bullet in the table;
- stick your thumb in the crack
Meaning (3):
- provide housing for
Example in sentence:- The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town;
- We are lodging three foreign students this semester
Meaning (4):
- file a formal charge against
Example in sentence:- The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
Meaning (5):
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
Example in sentence:- Where are you lodging in Paris?
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